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Texas town OKs anti-immigration measures
Nov 13 2006 11:54PM (CT)
FARMERS BRANCH, Texas (AP) - Leaders of this Dallas suburb unanimously approved tough new anti-immigration measures Monday evening, including one that makes English the official language.
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Man charged in threatening letters case
Nov 13 2006 11:48PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A man was charged Monday with mailing more than a dozen threatening letters containing white powder to U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Jon Stewart and other high-profile figures.
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Housing law draws segregation charge
Nov 13 2006 11:41PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A suburban parish has agreed to suspend enforcement of post-Hurricane Katrina housing ordinances, including one that requires property owners to get government permission to rent houses to anyone who is not a blood relative.
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Police: Pedestrian fires machine gun
Nov 13 2006 11:39PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A man fired a machine gun into the air Monday as he walked along streets in a commercial area and was shot by police after he wouldn't drop the weapon, witnesses said. No other injuries were reported.
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GOP fundraiser convicted in coin scandal
Nov 13 2006 11:33PM (CT)
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - A former GOP fundraiser was convicted Monday of embezzling from a rare-coin investment fund in a scandal that contributed to the rout of Ohio's Republican Party on Election Day.
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W.Va. pharmacy hostages overpower gunman
Nov 13 2006 11:24PM (CT)
STOLLINGS, W.Va. (AP) - Four people taken hostage by a gunman at a pharmacy overpowered their captor Monday after he demanded prescription drugs and fired several shots, authorities said.
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Ex-LAPD sergeant pleads not guilty
Nov 13 2006 11:22PM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A retired police sergeant and former TV reporter pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges stemming from suspected encounters with two 12-year-old boys aboard a cruise ship.
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Police: Driver confesses to hit-and-run
Nov 13 2006 11:18PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A driver accused of hitting a family of four while driving drunk confessed to the crime, according to an arrest warrant. The accident killed two children in a stroller and their mother.
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Judge postpones gang leaders' sentencing
Nov 13 2006 11:06PM (CT)
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A judge postponed the sentencing of four leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang Monday, saying that any request by prosecutors to bar the defendants from receiving visitors, letters or phone calls behind bars must come from the U.S. attorney general himself.
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Border Patrol says agents crossed border
Nov 13 2006 10:26PM (CT)
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - U.S. Border Patrol agents crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico last week while chasing a drug smuggling suspect, Border Patrol officials said Monday.
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Fla. Senator Mel Martinez to chair RNC
Nov 13 2006 9:50PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Florida Sen. Mel Martinez, a prominent Hispanic who previously served in President Bush's Cabinet, will assume the high-profile post of Republican National Committee general chairman, GOP officials said Monday.
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Man sentenced in Guardian Angels case
Nov 13 2006 9:41PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A judge sentenced a reputed mob associate to 20 years in prison for racketeering Monday, saying evidence showed he shot Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa at point-blank range in 1992 in retaliation for Sliwa's radio attacks on the mob.
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Suspect found dead after Fla. standoff
Nov 13 2006 9:36PM (CT)
HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) - A man who authorities believe fired shots at police officers over the weekend barricaded himself in a home Monday for nearly nine hours and fired a high-powered weapon at officers before he was found dead, authorities said.
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Corruption reported at N.J. med school
Nov 13 2006 9:12PM (CT)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A state-run medical school illegally billed nearly $36 million in Medicare and Medicaid services and has paid $5.7 million to doctors since 2002 for illegal referrals, according to a federal monitor's report released Monday.
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Wash. seeks to check licenses at border
Nov 13 2006 8:53PM (CT)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Washington state on Monday asked the federal government to authorize a three-month test program to scan the driver's licenses of people crossing the border with British Columbia.
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Victims identified in Sierra derailment
Nov 13 2006 8:41PM (CT)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The two crew members who died in last week's fatal train derailment in the Sierra Nevada were identified Monday.
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Indicted Va. sheriff steps down
Nov 13 2006 7:57PM (CT)
ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - A rural county sheriff charged with taking part in a scheme to sell drugs seized from criminals has stepped down, his attorney said Monday.
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Woman accused of running down ex-husband
Nov 13 2006 7:43PM (CT)
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - A woman was charged with murder Monday after running down her ex-husband with a car outside another woman's apartment, authorities said.
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Pa. prison lawyer charged in hit-and-run
Nov 13 2006 7:42PM (CT)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - The highest-ranking lawyer in the state's prison system was charged Monday with crashing his car into the back of a minivan while drunk, then fleeing the scene.
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Diplomat taken into custody, released
Nov 13 2006 7:34PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Officers investigating reports that a Kenyan diplomat had beaten his 9-year-old son briefly detained him but let him go because of his diplomatic immunity, police said Monday.
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Prosecutors deny Padilla torture claims
Nov 13 2006 7:32PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - Federal prosecutors on Monday denied claims by suspected al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla that he was tortured during his 3 1/2 years in military custody as an enemy combatant.
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Relatives ID immigrant smuggling victims
Nov 13 2006 7:31PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - Delfina Guerrero Guerrero burst into tears Monday when she saw a crime scene photo showing the bruised face of her dead 18-year-old son, crying so loudly that prosecutors had to briefly stop questioning her.
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Private spaceport launches test rocket
Nov 13 2006 7:07PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - A remote West Texas spaceport being built and bankrolled by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos launched a test rocket Monday for the first time.
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Newsman Joseph Ungaro dies at 76
Nov 13 2006 7:06PM (CT)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Joseph Ungaro, a former managing editor of The Providence Evening Bulletin whose question to President Nixon at an editors meeting elicited his "I'm not a crook" reply, has died. He was 76.
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Gates says U.S. schools need work
Nov 13 2006 6:44PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Monday that the U.S. higher education system is the envy of the world but primary and secondary schools are failing to adequately prepare students for college.
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3rd Marine to plead guilty
Nov 13 2006 6:37PM (CT)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Another Marine charged with kidnapping and murdering an unarmed Iraqi civilian in the town of Hamdania has agreed to plead guilty to lesser charges, his attorney said Monday. That means four of the eight U.S. troops charged have now struck plea bargains.
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Mo. panel: Immigration, abortion linked
Nov 13 2006 6:25PM (CT)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A Republican-led legislative panel claims in a new report on illegal immigration that abortion is partly to blame because it is causing a shortage of American workers.
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Widows sue to get Wiccan symbol approved
Nov 13 2006 6:01PM (CT)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The widows of two Wiccan combat veterans sued the government Monday, saying the military has dragged its feet on allowing the religion's symbols on headstones.
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Citizenship test to focus on democracy
Nov 13 2006 5:50PM (CT)
BOSTON (AP) - In an effort to make the citizenship exam more meaningful, the federal government said Monday it will test an exam that relies less on trivia _ such as asking the name of the president's house _ and more on applicants' grasp of American democracy.
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Bishop decries vulgarity
Nov 13 2006 5:23PM (CT)
BALTIMORE (AP) - The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops urged national policymakers Monday to leave behind the campaign season's "shrill and shallow debate" over Iraq and help end sectarian violence, so that citizens of the war-torn nation can find peace.
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Organized labor pushes pro-worker agenda
Nov 13 2006 4:39PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - After years in "a defensive crouch," as one union official puts it, organized labor sees an opportunity in the new Democratic Congress for action to help workers _ from raising the minimum wage to improving pension protections.
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Police: Accused molester faked own death
Nov 13 2006 4:38PM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia and Texas authorities searched on Monday for a man they believe faked his own death to avoid trial on charges he molested his fiancee's 12-year-old daughter.
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Journalist testifies at terrorism trial
Nov 13 2006 3:44PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Former New York Times journalist Judith Miller testified Monday that she saw no evidence that a grocer charged with providing money and recruits to Palestinian terrorists had been tortured when she secretly witnessed his interrogation by the Israelis in 1993.
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In Vt., some push to repeal property tax
Nov 13 2006 2:16PM (CT)
NEWARK, Vt. (AP) - Ben Bangs pulls a scrap of paper from his pocket on which he has neatly listed in pencil how much he has paid in property taxes in each of the past several years. Like everything else, the amount has gone up steadily each year, but it spiked 38 percent in the past year, driven by soaring property values even in his little town of 450.
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Mother of slain Marine calls for mercy
Nov 13 2006 2:10PM (CT)
CULLMAN, Ala. (AP) - Marine MP Adam R. Fales died in Iraq, but not on its ruthless streets. He was killed in the barracks at Camp Fallujah, an M-16 slug in the back of his head. At first, when it looked as if Fales had been murdered by an insurgent or perhaps even a comrade, Fales' mother wanted eye-for-an-eye justice. But since then, she has learned that it was a terrible accident involving two fellow Marines.
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Spaniard pleads guilty in seabass case
Nov 13 2006 1:15PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - A Spanish businessman pleaded guilty Monday to obstruction of justice arising from an investigation into the illegal harvesting of Chilean seabass, in the first case of its kind brought in the United States.
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Iraq's top justice: progress being made
Nov 13 2006 12:49PM (CT)
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Despite threats against the lives of judges and their families, Iraq's judicial system is making progress, the country's chief justice said during a visit to New Hampshire.
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Storm brings heavy snow to Northwest
Nov 13 2006 12:38PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Snowfall from an early season storm forced road closures and knocked out power to thousands of people in the Pacific Northwest, days after warm-weather rainstorms caused major flooding in the region.
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Man charged with shooting Fla. officers
Nov 13 2006 12:14PM (CT)
TAMARAC, Fla. (AP) - A man was charged Monday with shooting two sheriff's deputies, killing one, during a traffic stop in suburban Fort Lauderdale.
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Vioxx-like drug gets mixed reviews
Nov 13 2006 11:15AM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - The first published studies of Arcoxia, the drug that Merck & Co. hopes will take the place of its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx, are getting mixed reviews from doctors, some of whom say the results do not make a case for the medication's approval.
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Woman is surrogate mom to baby gorillas
Nov 13 2006 11:11AM (CT)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Barb Jones spends her days crawling through piles of straw with a 15-pound baby gorilla on her back, sometimes climbing up on platforms inside the cage. It's all part of being a surrogate mother to baby gorillas, but that doesn't mean it's easy work for the 68-year-old Jones, who's been doing it for 26 years.
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Truck hits minivan on highway, 6 killed
Nov 13 2006 10:22AM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A pickup truck going the wrong way on a highway struck a minivan, killing five members of a family heading home from a soccer tournament. The pickup's driver, whose blood alcohol content was four times the state's legal limit, later died.
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Coroner: Pa. man dies in freak accident
Nov 13 2006 9:38AM (CT)
ADRIAN, Pa. (AP) - A hunter fell out of his loft bed and died after being impaled by an ornate metal chair, authorities said. James Frank Schuey Jr., 42, of Worthington, died early Saturday at a camp in Washington Township from a massive loss of blood, according to Coroner Robert T. Bower.
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Wildfire burns east of Los Angeles
Nov 13 2006 9:11AM (CT)
LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. (AP) - Firefighters were struggling on Monday to tame a wind-driven wildfire that has charred dense brush and trees in the hills east of Los Angeles and briefly threatened hundreds of homes.
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Reaction mixed on Flight 587 memorial
Nov 13 2006 6:13AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Hundreds of relatives and friends of the victims in the nation's second deadliest air accident dedicated a much-awaited memorial Sunday with mementoes and mixed emotions.
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2 ex-presidents tour with well-honed act
Nov 13 2006 6:00AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - They're separated by more than 20 years, they come from opposing political parties, and one evicted the other from the White House. But Bill Clinton and George Bush act like a team, a pair of touring comedians with a well-honed act.
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Seattle votes it safe for lap dances
Nov 13 2006 5:41AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Like many residents of this famously liberal city, Iris Nicholas was baffled when the City Council last year passed strict regulations on strip clubs, including a lap-dance ban.
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Judge steadfast about sex offender case
Nov 13 2006 5:39AM (CT)
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - A judge who was widely vilified when he sentenced a sex offender to two months in jail said the case has been the highlight of his career.
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Philly to revamp children services
Nov 13 2006 4:41AM (CT)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The new leader of the city's embattled Department of Human Services plans to have caseworkers revisit all 26,000 children under the city's care and to review the performance of dozens of contractors hired to watch over some children.
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Friends say accused Marine is loyal
Nov 13 2006 4:14AM (CT)
PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) - To those from Marine Sgt. Lawrence G. Hutchins III's hometown, he is remembered as the kind of guy who stood by his friends, fending off bullies and being a team player on and off the field.
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